to slaughter
- verb
- /ˈslɔːtər/
- Dairy cows are are slaughtered at three to four years old.
- slaughter animals
- slaughter cattle
- slaughter livestock
If you want a stake, you don't need to raise an entire cow and then slaughter the cow, you just grow a stake.
- If you want a stake, you don't need to raise an entire cow and then slaughter the cow, you just grow a stake.
- They've secured that and now they're looking for sheep to slaughter on the hills of, uh, goodness only knows where.
- I mean, the cost to domestic meat prices would be ridiculous because that requires like, you know, chickens don't slaughter and debone themselves.
- He rounds up sheep and goats and, and cattle and brings them into his tent and he slaughters some of them and ties some of them up and tortures them.
- Another one was, you know, like what you said earlier, you guys slaughter cows or this guy in, in people in Australia, they they slaughter Kangaroos.
- But dude, I can take one step like outside my purview and look back at myself and be like, you slaughter animals non-stop for your food like you're evil.
- I've also heard a lot of debates about like is the leather that use that is used to make leather products from cows that have been slaughtered for food?
- And we're going to make it so that you can only slaughter your hogs S down the Mississippi below the place where we draw our water for the city.
- And hey, man, did you have to slaughter the goat?
- NVIDIA is slaughtering elephants to produce GPU's.
Examples
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At the wedding feast, two water buffalo, part of the bridewealth, are slaughtered for the guests.
Academic text (1993) -
Instead, the most effective response was to slaughter infected animals to break the transmission chain.
Academic text (2013) -
So she created a, a way, one of the worst things is the whole process of how we slaughter animals.
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So we were slaughtering these beautiful huge animals in order to light our rooms and power our machines.
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She said the farmer might possibly still slaughter the pig.
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We sent a few sheep ahead to be slaughtered for the communal meal.
Academic text (1990) -
All the calves were slaughtered at the age of 8 months.
Academic text (2014) -
We fatten 'em up and put 'em right back on the street where they get slaughtered.
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Pa says we all got to help slaughter them hogs in the mornin'.
Fiction book (1992) -
Farmers often slaughter their livestock to provide meat for the market.
Synonyms
To kill animals for meat
To kill a person or animal quickly on purpose
Remove the insides and clean an animal so you can eat it
Antonyms
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Surface Forms
Etymology
Slaughter as a verb is the action form of the old root behind slay, 'to kill'. It means to kill animals, usually in large numbers and often to prepare them for food.